[kirkdavis]

I've been a member for a couple of years now and have spent many hours reading posts, learning tips, and getting the rush of reading good fish tales. And I've shared a few of my own. I've met some of you on the water and at HOW events.
I've grown a lot as a kayak angler, and that is in great part to this forum, for which I am grateful.
I would especially like to thank two members that I have met and learned from.
Mr. Nice Guy is truly that, and he is great at researching whatever topic piques his interest. Read his posts. They might give you a different view of things, sometime quite humorous.
The other is Mitchell. I've talked to him at a HOW event, and met him on the water. He catches a lot of grief for posting pics with his canoe, but he too is a wealth of information. He taught me how to make a weeds free squid bait, and most importantly, he suggested landing in the surf Backwards.
My brother was here for a week and we launched at Dana landing for Sunset cliffs for two days to get him familiar, then Sunday we went bare bones to practice surf launching/landing at LJ. It was fairly rough with the sets coming from two angles and coming in just a few secons apart. I tried the backwards landing and I love it! I tried about 10 times and never felt like I was going to wipe out....totally in control. My brother did the same. He only wiped out once on a launch.
Wednesday we went out with all of our gear, and probably should have stayed home, but it was his last chance to fish LJ. On launch I took a wave over the bow that also went over my head, and swept my coffee out of the cup holder. My brother waited a little and only got wet from the waist down. Bait was non-existent, even at the pier, so we dropped squid down, but the wind and chop was pretty bad. I ended up with a Sheepshead, but that was it. Landing actually was smoother than the launch, backwards of course.
Thanks again to the whole BWE gang.
As MakoBob would say,
Tight Lines.